The National Emergency Management Agency has called for a special budgetary allocation for the recently-designed National Flood Response Plan to relieve the victims of flood disasters across the country in the future.
The Director-General of the Agency, Mustapha Habib, in Maiduguri, on Thursday, described such budgetary allocation as the required political will and investment in disaster risk reduction activities.
Represented by a Deputy Director at the Agency, Mohammed Kanar, the DG was in Maiduguri to present donations by NEMA to victims of the 2022 flood disaster in Borno State.
The donation was packaged with support from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development.
Handing over the relief materials donated to Governor Babagana Zulum at the Zonal office of the Agency in Maiduguri, Habib noted with grief: “Several states in the country, including Borno, have suffered series of floods, including other natural and human induced disasters.”
He explained, “Already the agency is inundated with reports of flood disaster in more than 450 local government areas from 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT and still counting, causing colossal loss of lives, livelihood, properties and infrastructure.
